I had a quick stroll through the Kaufhaus Jandorf on the other side of my street today. It was the last day of this year's Berlin Art Week and the venue Positions inside the beautiful old department store showed 52 different exhibitors/galleries from eight different countries and their represented artists. I liked the series "Unbeschwerte Tage" from Max Kersting the most, it's really funny. And there was some pretty interesting other contemporary art to be seen, too.

The last weeks passed quickly as I was doing more law stuff again. But there was also a happy wedding, friends in Berlin, Friesland was beautiful and sad, Hamburg turned the tables and my head, life is good altogether ...

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After 13 months and 86 recharge cycles the battery of my mobile laptop is still healthy like new, astounding! What's also great with the current Haswell processors is their power efficiency. At around half display brightness the notebook only consumes around 2.5 Watts when idling, that's amazing! These new chips give you at least 12 hours of battery life, I often get more out of one charge as long as I don't do photo editing but only browsing and writing. The minor successor of Broadwell chips has been delayed to beginning/mid next year instead of the scheduled summer 2014 release. That means the next "tock" (big step forward in Intel roadmap language) of Skylake chips, that are supposed to bring significant speed boosts, are very likely to not be released before 2016. So, if you need to buy a laptop now, there's no hesitation to take a current Haswell machine. Broadwell won't be much different and Skylake is still far away.

I joined the "Mahnwache für den Frieden" (picket for peace) on Saturday, literally the Montagsdemo (monday demonstrations) on a bigger scale, with all the usual suspects, Ken Jebsen, Jürgen Elsässer and the others. I have to say the mainstream bashing of the events is totally unfounded and seems like they only wanna choke off the movement. It's just a bunch of alternative, critical people who stand up for peace and against the establishment and our capitalist, militant and ecologically harmful system. Nothing to worry about at all and by no means right-winged. It's what's going on in the world that is to worry about!